
Top 33 Question The Status Quotes
#1. In order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure we receive unbiased answers. This takes effort. It is always easier to simply accept the ideas presented to us than to question the status quo.
Stephen McAndrew
#2. Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.
Maximillian Degenerez
#3. Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
Craig Ferguson
#4. Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.
Garry Kasparov
#6. What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.
David Bornstein
#7. As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
Alan Green
#8. Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children - and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.
Billy Graham
#9. Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come ... Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. As a child you don't question your parents' choices. You accept them. They are justified by the godlike status of parenthood.
Bruce Springsteen
#11. We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
David Novak
#12. It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.
Alain De Botton
#13. We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
Astro Teller
#14. After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
Stephen Harper
#15. the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.
Liezi
#16. I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis
#17. Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.
Rebecca Solnit
#18. No one ever asks "Why are you married?" even though the question is just as valid as "Why are you single?" After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love--fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.
Sara Eckel
#19. Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.
Ken Wilber
#20. I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.
Leslie Jordan
#22. We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations.
M.F. Moonzajer
#23. At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.
Daniel Suarez
#24. Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
#25. This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#26. It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.
John Tesh
#27. Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.
Nicki Minaj
#28. States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis Hanson
#29. We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Alain De Botton
#30. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
Margaret Cho
#31. The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz
#32. I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
Hanya Yanagihara
#33. This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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